Sometimes the harder you consciously try the less you get accomplished. I am all for failure as a teaching tool; however if the quality of the failure is no more then common contrivances then there is little to learn save, stop trying so hard and let it flow more naturally; less consciously that is.

I want new shapes. In regards to style writing, its all about the shapes, abstracting the commonly accepted and universally recognized letter form into a new, or re-refined shape echoing the established while seeking to be its own thing. Just as a child is a recognized human they grow up with the hopes of becoming their own individual, complimenting the hole while expanding on its definition.

As part of trying to find new shapes i found myself looking at the photos of a good friend Saul Metnick of Blandscape.org. I haven’t spoken to him about his work for a while, other then to know hes in the mix and trying ti keep himself moving. From the outset i will say, i dont get photography, i can spot a ragingly good photo, but i miss a lot of the nuance that may make one photo stand out from others. My sense of framing can be hap-hazard at best and accidentally genius once in a blue moon. Saul has always brought a sense of whit and irony to his photos; which i always appreciated but was never convinced was the sole basis for him taking good photos. In looking at many the other day i started to look beyond the subject and just see the shapes, created by the interplay of forms and shadows (which have always been there but took me time to come too, im an idiot with a decent vocabulary). SO in an attempt to distill the shapes and things i found interesting I took some screen shots and did some illustrator mock ups. Surely nothing groundbreaking but a good place to start.

Been trying to use photoshop to color in some Moleskine pages. I haven’t quite got a good method to working it yet, but its pretty fun

sometimes 20 minutes in illustrator can work it out of my system, while providing a record of the phrase incase, against all odds it can be put to proper use in the future…

“Here to stay”, marks a permanence, suggestive of commitments in the long term. Here, on the spot, to stay. “here to stray”, i came here to to go away, to leave? or to Go a way, non specifically, a way in general…

Page on the right was done on the way to work this morning, the page on the left was done on the way home Friday last after work. Ole Boy was wearing a camo baseball cap but after settling himself and checking himself out in the reflection of the window, no less then 8 times he took the hat off, luckily i wasn’t vary far along so it didnt make for a huge visual distraction as can be the case when your subject decides to move mod drawing.

On the subject o school uniforms, im all for them except when that uniform is also the uniform of choice for Strippers, and whores. What is pious and humble about mini skirts and knee high socks, leaving a large swath of teen-age thigh screaming for attention. There is nothing wrong with a mini skirt, but in my opinion its not school appropriate attire. I am not of the opinion that men are so weak minded they cant or shouldn’t be expected handle a lil flesh saying hi; however flesh leaping out may not be the most effective first impression. Dave Chappelle has a bit in ‘killing them softly’ ( a stand up show), about the dangers of having your identity confused. He used as an example the scenario of him, dressed in a policeman uniform being mistaken for a cop. The bottom line he declares, “if you dont want to be mistaken for a whore, dont wear a whores uniform”. That being said, what was the decision process like amongst the administration of a catholic school on deciding that the mini skirt was appropriate gear to love the lord and get a good well rounded education in. Were there factions? Did the ‘below the knee’ crew square off with the younger hipper, image conscious ‘8 inches and Knee highs’ posse? I mean really whats wrong the skirt to the calf? Does that radically effect the level of lesson retention? Im not advocating the Berka, but now that its been mentioned…

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Ego and the id(iot)

Playing around with the type paths and blended objects. Def endless possibilities. second from the bottom i like as it feels almost watercolor-ish to me and thats a cool thing since its all vector.

Its pretty awesome, that I’m and IDIOT kinda of way, that i made it through 4 years of college proudly not being able to turn a computer on, let alone make it do shit. If some had just mentioned it wasn’t going to be a passing phase like the calculator watch (which i9 was sure was gonna take off big!) I might have taken a bit more of interest. Oh the blinding ignorance of the self assured youth… I can now 95% of the time turn the computer on so i got that going for me!